FXX has renewed critical darling You're the Worst for a fifth and final season to air in 2018. The news comes ahead of Wednesday's season four finale of the Stephen Falk-created comedy starring Aya Cash, Chris Geere, Kether Donohue and Desmin Borges.

“Stephen Falk has been an extraordinary creative partner to work with over the past four years, and it is in that spirit that we came to the mutual decision to end You’re the Worst with its fifth season,” FX president of original programming Nick Grad said in a release announcing the news Wednesday. “Stephen’s singular vision for the series has been its guiding force from the start and our decision, while difficult, will allow the series to end on its own terms and in a way most satisfying to its devoted fans. We want to thank Stephen, the cast and the crew for everything they’ve done to make You’re the Worst one of the best comedies on TV.”

Added Falk: “Making You’re The Worst has been an incredible experience and FX Networks have been dream partners,” said Falk. “I am thankful to have the opportunity to be thoroughly judged whether or not we ‘stick the landing’ – which is a thing people say now that stupid Breaking Bad had to end so damn perfectly.”

NEW YORK — Nov. 15, 2017 — “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” is getting in the Super Bowl spirit with a live telecast on Sunday, Feb. 4 immediately following the special post-Super Bowl airing of NBC’s #1 entertainment series and the #1 drama on broadcast television, “This Is Us,” and late local news.

“The Tonight Show” will air from the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis, Minn., home of Super Bowl LII. Guests for the Feb. 4 show will be announced at a later date.

This marks “The Tonight Show’s” second post-Super Bowl airing. On Feb. 1, 2015, the show was telecast live from Phoenix following Super Bowl XLIX when the New England Patriots defeated the Seattle Seahawks, 28-24, on a last-second interception.

From Universal Television and Broadway Video, “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” is executive produced by Lorne Michaels and produced by Gerard Bradford, Mike DiCenzo and Katie Hockmeyer. Jamie Granet-Bederman produces. “The Tonight Show” tapes before a live studio audience from Studio 6B in 30 Rockefeller Center.

I know their not scripted but just for info for anyone who likes them.

“PENN & TELLER: FOOL US,”

“MASTERS OF ILLUSION” AND “WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY?”

WILL RETURN TO THE CW IN 2018

November 14, 2017 (Burbank, CA) ─ The CW Network has ordered new seasons of the hit magic series PENN & TELLER: FOOL US and MASTERS OF ILLUSION. Fixtures of The CW’s original summer programming strategy, PENN & TELLER: FOOL US and MASTERS OF ILLUSION will join never-before-seen original episodes of the improv comedy WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY? in Summer 2018. Premiere dates and times will be announced later.

PENN & TELLER: FOOL US is a one-hour competition series celebrating magic and featuring the legendary duo Penn & Teller. On each episode of PENN & TELLER: FOOL US, aspiring magicians are invited to perform their best trick to try and fool the world-famous team of Penn & Teller. Anyone who succeeds wins the right to perform with Penn & Teller in their celebrated show at the Rio Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. The live studio audience and the TV audience watch along with Penn & Teller as they try to figure out the secrets. Penn & Teller see the trick only once and have to immediately try to work it out. The live studio audience knows there are no camera tricks, secret edits or helpful camera cuts. This is all real magic.

PENN & TELLER: FOOL US, hosted by actress Alyson Hannigan (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “How I Met Your Mother”), is created and executive produced by Penn Jillette, Teller, Peter Adam Golden, and Andrew Golder in association with 117 PRODUCTIONS and September Films (part of DCD Media).

Hosted by actor Dean Cain (“Supergirl,” “Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman”), MASTERS OF ILLUSION features amazing magic performed by cutting-edge illusionists and escape artists, and performers in each episode displaying skills ranging from perplexing interactive mind magic to hilarious comedy routines. Live audience members and viewers at home will be baffled by the astounding skills of these modern illusionists.

Based on the wildly successful U.K. format, which also spawned a previous incarnation in the U.S. that ran for eight seasons on ABC, WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY? is executive produced by Dan Patterson, Mark Leveson, Jimmy Mulville, Ryan Stiles, Wayne Brady and Colin Mochrie. Created by Dan Patterson and Mark Leveson, WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY? is from Angst Productions and Hat Trick Productions.

Bit more info on the Lord of the Rings series with Amazon in regards to money

Amazon's megadeal for The Lord of the Rings is believed to be for five seasons — plus a potential spinoff — with insiders putting the price tag for global rights at around $250 million. Once production budgets, casting, writers, producers and visual effects are factored in, the total for the Rings series — which will be set in Middle-earth and explore storylines preceding The Fellowship of the Ring — could hit $1 billion. Yes, $1 billion for a TV show.

"This is a unique opportunity to tell new stories in a magical world that is a global phenomenon," Amazon head of scripted Sharon Tal Yguado tells THR in justifying the deal. "As we build our diverse portfolio of programming, we are making some of our big bets on tentpole series."

Bit more info on the Lord of the Rings series with Amazon in regards to money

Amazon's megadeal for The Lord of the Rings is believed to be for five seasons — plus a potential spinoff — with insiders putting the price tag for global rights at around $250 million. Once production budgets, casting, writers, producers and visual effects are factored in, the total for the Rings series — which will be set in Middle-earth and explore storylines preceding The Fellowship of the Ring — could hit $1 billion. Yes, $1 billion for a TV show.

"This is a unique opportunity to tell new stories in a magical world that is a global phenomenon," Amazon head of scripted Sharon Tal Yguado tells THR in justifying the deal. "As we build our diverse portfolio of programming, we are making some of our big bets on tentpole series."

That is a huge chunk of cash. And one hell of a lot of Amazon Prime subscriptions if you ask me.

They're going to be banking on it driving up prime subscriptions by a huge amount but obviously they've got to contend with piracy as well because I can see the series being as heavily pirated as game of thrones - if not more.

I could see a big price drop on fire sticks and/or boxes in the months leading up to the premier at the very least.

They're going to be banking on it driving up prime subscriptions by a huge amount but obviously they've got to contend with piracy as well because I can see the series being as heavily pirated as game of thrones - if not more.

I could see a big price drop on fire sticks and/or boxes in the months leading up to the premier at the very least.

They will be banking on it driving up the subscriptions, but im not sure it will drive them up massively. It may increase in the short term for when its on, but people may just take it on a monthly basis. If i was Amazon i would release it on a weekly basis and do it in 2 blocks as well, like what CBS have done with Star Trek on All Access.

Whether they can actually drop the prices of their sticks/boxes other than how they do now at sale time im not sure. The fact they make little profit on them as it is if any their is not much room for maneuver. Yes i know its to get people into the eco zone. I suspect it will just either be a special few days sale, or they will release the series at the time of when they have a planned sale anyway. The fact that the stick will be on sale for $24.99 which is the cheapest its ever been i believe this Black Friday, makes me think it would be the ideal time to actually bring the show out around December time in the future.

FOX midseaosn shows, The X Files and 911 confirmed to premiere January 3

Brilliant. Love XF and i am looking forward to 911. Wednesday isn't really filled with much competition so i think they should perform well.

So presumably they will air near enough without breaks and then Empire/Star will return mid/late March for then final episodes of the season. Should fit perfectly, although im sure FOX will manage to screw it up somehow.

Crimetown is the latest podcast set to be made into a television series.

FX is turning Gimlet Media's serial documentary podcast, which explores the ways organized crime and municipal corruption has shaped Providence, RI, into a scripted show. Hosts Marc Smerling and Zac Stuart-Pontier (also creators of HBO's The Jinx) will write the adaptation, with Hidden Figures director Ted Melfi set to helm the series.

In addition to Smerling, Stuart-Pontier and Melfi, Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson of Color Force will executive produce the project, which is in the development stages. The latter are the pair are the prolific producers behind Hunger Games and American Crime Story, also on FX.

Family Crimes - Latino Drama from David Ayer Receives Production Commitment at Starz

Expected to get a straight to series order shortly

EXCLUSIVE: In a very competitive situation, Starz has landed hot drama spec script Family Crimes by Suicide Squad writer-director David Ayer, from Jerry Bruckheimer Television, with a production commitment.

While the project has not been formally ordered to series, I hear that is the intention at the pay cable network, which is in the straight-to-series business. With a flashing green light, Family Crimes already is setting up a writers room, starting the casting process and is putting together a production schedule for a summer 2018 shoot.

Written by Ayer, Family Crimes centers on a young privileged Latina who must reinvent herself in order to save her family when the feds close in on their business with the Mexican mob. She quickly learns to navigate the criminal underworld and finds herself trapped in a web of complex rules, rivalries and deep politics.

FOX midseaosn shows, The X Files and 911 confirmed to premiere January 3

Brilliant. Love XF and i am looking forward to 911. Wednesday isn't really filled with much competition so i think they should perform well.

So presumably they will air near enough without breaks and then Empire/Star will return mid/late March for then final episodes of the season. Should fit perfectly, although im sure FOX will manage to screw it up somehow.

FXX has renewed critical darling You're the Worst for a fifth and final season to air in 2018. The news comes ahead of Wednesday's season four finale of the Stephen Falk-created comedy starring Aya Cash, Chris Geere, Kether Donohue and Desmin Borges.

“Stephen Falk has been an extraordinary creative partner to work with over the past four years, and it is in that spirit that we came to the mutual decision to end You’re the Worst with its fifth season,” FX president of original programming Nick Grad said in a release announcing the news Wednesday. “Stephen’s singular vision for the series has been its guiding force from the start and our decision, while difficult, will allow the series to end on its own terms and in a way most satisfying to its devoted fans. We want to thank Stephen, the cast and the crew for everything they’ve done to make You’re the Worst one of the best comedies on TV.”

Added Falk: “Making You’re The Worst has been an incredible experience and FX Networks have been dream partners,” said Falk. “I am thankful to have the opportunity to be thoroughly judged whether or not we ‘stick the landing’ – which is a thing people say now that stupid Breaking Bad had to end so damn perfectly.”

Great show, we've only seen seasons 1 and 2 so far in the UK on 5STAR. I hope we get season 3 and onwards soon.

ABC announced the midseason premiere dates for its TGIT lineup, including the final episodes of “Scandal,” on Thursday.

The final eleven episodes of “Scandal,” along with the midseason premieres of “Grey’s Anatomy” and “How to Get Away with Murder,” will all launch on Jan. 18. All three shows will air their winter finales tonight on ABC.

The network confirmed in May that the current seventh season of “Scandal” would be the show’s last. “I’ve had conversation with Shonda [Rhimes] for a while, she had a sense of how she wanted the story to end,” ABC Entertainment head Channing Dungey said at the time. “I always prefer to end a show where you’re feeling creatively on top.”

In addition, ABC announced the premiere dates for the new season of “Match Game” and the new game show “Child Support.”

“Match Game,” produced by FremantleMedia North America, returns to primetime on Jan. 3 at 10 p.m. ET/PT for Season 3. The show will once again be hosted by Alec Baldwin. “Match Game” is a panel game show that features two contestants as they attempt to match the answers of six celebrities in a game of fill-in the missing blank. Baldwin and FMNA’s Jennifer Mullin, Scott St. John, and Mallory Schwartz executive produce.

Personally i think they should have started a little earlier as they only have 3 weeks before the Winter Olympics start on NBC. It seems they are going to air Scandal at least straight through so it will be done by end of March and then the Grey's fire spin-off can take the slot. Think they may need a couple of double episodes of that to fit the schedule in as its 10 episodes i think. Although that seems to many so it may be less.

Im hearing that OUAT will be going on a 3 month hiatus but thats not confirmed yet as far as i know, unless anyone knows differently ?

ABC has put in development drama Flight 410 from The Last Ship writer-producer Jill Blankenship, American Crime executive producer Michael McDonald and ABC Studios.

Written and executive produced by Blankenship, Flight 410 is described as a character-driven conspiracy thriller. After a commercial flight vanishes over the Atlantic Ocean, a disgraced journalist whose wife was on the plane is driven to solve the mystery as he leads an unconventional group with other family members left behind.